Transparent authentication

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boeing
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Transparent authentication

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Hello all.
I am looking for ideas, guys. Here is my problem domain:

In my organization all of the internal web apps run on Unix-like servers (SunOS 5.10). It was strategically decided to decommission all of the Windows servers.
Part of the old apps run on ASP and use Request.ServerVariables("AUTH_USER") to retrieve user name of a person arrived to those sites. When it all worked within Windows environment it worked. Nowadays all of the users work on Windows workstations, but the apps migrated to SunOS. As a result those apps deploy an authentication routine that includes entering of credentials and check against LDAP. I am looking for a way to allow transparent authentication as it worked previously on MS infrastructure. Do you, guys, have any ideas? I read a bit about mod_auth_sspi, but found that there is no Unix-based analogy of it.

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